Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-11-26

H0NPTb DtlllIIti IIdN i'-''''-''-' ''''
he management of the New York
Ledger. His three sons will carry
IN the business. Mr.. Bonner has
heen printer for forty.eight years
a cnlnrcd man in Floyd county.
Ca. has patented an automatic !
car coupler. which is pronounced
hv practical railroad men one of
the greatest inventions of TIL" age.
Rnsiness on some cf tire South
err lines is so heavy the roads find
their motive power entirely made
innate. and have restrained their
agents from securing new
business.
The annual renort of Or. g. r.
Mcdonald. superintendent money
ordcr system. shows chat wh''r
Welding no profit for the v"ar. tho
svstom was substantially self-Sns-
tanning.
Evangelist Moody has decided TO
start for India early in 1883. Int
before he gees no will make an Of
fort to convert townsville. Nv. a
tabernacle that will seat 5000 is
now hoing built for the revival
meetings.
TIE State Returning Board.
composed of Gov. Lee. Attorney
General Ayers. and Treasurer Har,
man meets at the capital in Rich
mond on next Mondav. 2Sth inst.
to canvass the returns for :he
House and Senate.
Thirty.six million trade dollars
in I'll were originally coined at
the Tnitod States Mint. Nf those
only 5000 600 have been redeemed
If is thought most Of them have
found their way to China i'll the
course of trade.
There were over 5000 n00.0nO
cigars manufactured in the United
States in 1886. Tn 1884 there was
little over 3 200. 200 eco made and
in 1880 little over o.O00.000. Don
IT is. therefore. safe TO assume thai
rhe nsc of the weed is not on the
| decrease.
On December 81. proximo, Or
!. L. Cahcll will have comnleted
fifty years Of service as a professor
in the University Of Virginia. His
collec CUES and former pnpils viii
on this anniversary present hin
with handsome gold goblet. snit
ably inscribed, as token of thei1
esteem.
Mr.. w. Campbell, of Essex coun
ty. Virginia made shipment O
Japanese persimmons last week.
Mr.. Campbell has the only Japa-
nese persimmon tree in the county
large enough to hear, and, as fal
as known, grown in the State. Tho
fruit is much larger thanan orange
of deep red color, and very de
l;ciouS.
The explosion Of watchman's
lantern in the stable of the winter
,,-,r, s-o,u, vr 11Io ,irNrruUrnn. OiIIi-
day night, of the main bnilding
together with most of the animals
it contained. The loss is variously
estimated, but it will undoubtedly
be large.
The Dutch steamer W. A. Schol
ten, Capt. Taat, which left Rotter-
dam Saturday for New York, was
sunk by collision with the steam
er Rosa Mary. of Hartlepool, at II
O'Clock Monday night, ten miles of
Dover. The Scholten had OH beard,
according to the best statements
obtainable, 210 persons, 1872 OF
whom are drowned Or missing.
A prominent member of the State
board of sinking fund commission
has expressed the opinion that the
Hon. Roscoe Conkliug would he
allowed fee of about 81, 50Ofo his
services as counsel in the Virginia
contempt cases. This was the
amount allowed Hon. A. H. Gar
land and Hon. II. r. Merrick in
similar cases III which they APP
peared l,efore the Supreme Court
for this State.
Full returns of the recent cleo.
ton for members of the General
Assembly of Virginia show that the
complexion Of he new body will be-
as follows: Senate-Democrats.
&c; Republicans, ID. House Of
Observation-Disclosures 81; Repub.
licans, IS; Independent, l. Demo
cratic majority on joint ballot, Sd.
The official canvass of the returns
will not he made till the 2Sth inst.
but the above igures will not be
changed. There will probably be
several contests.
There is an interesting case be-
fore the Court of Appeals Of vir
ginia, which is probably the first OF
the kind in the country. A COL
cred man named Coleman Was sen
fenced to State prison for assault.
ing colored woman, on the yer,
dict ola jury of twelve col0Ied men.
His attorney appealed the case OH
the ground that the selection of
twelve jurors on account Of tleir
color WAS unconstitutional. Cole.